evangel

e·van·gel

the gospel

[E-] any of the four Gospels

Origin of evangel

Gr euangelos an evangelist

Origin of evangel

Middle English and Old French evangile from Classical Latin evangelium, good news (in LL(Ec), gospel) from Classical Greek euangelion, good news (in New Testament , gospel) from euangelos, bringing good news from eu-, well + angelos, messenger: see angel

Sentence Examples

Putting aside the temporary Christian work of a Jesuit chaplain to the Japanese Christian General Konishe, in 1594 during the Japanese invasion, as well as that on a larger scale by students who received the evangel in the Roman form from Peking in 1792, and had made 4000 converts by the end of 1793, the first serious attempt at the conversion of Korea was made by the French Societe des Missions Etrangeres in 1835.

The prominence given to this idea in Stephen's long speech) - and partly to jealousy of those who, by preaching the wider Messianic Evangel, were winning over the Gentiles, and particularly proselytes, in such great numbers.

Seven years afterwards, however, when the contest with the Crown was ended, the kirk was expressly acknowledged as the only Church in Scotland, and jurisdiction given it over all who should attempt to be outsiders; while the preaching of the Evangel and the planting of congregations went on in all the accessible parts of Scotland.